Re: [Help] Emacs does not launch as normal user.

[Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>]

MysteriousSilver <mysterioussilver@protonmail.com> writes:

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>> That is a standard way to run emacs. What happens when you do
>> emacs -nw
>> in the terminal?
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> Emacs runs fine in the terminal.
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>> Also, if you start emacs like so:
>> strace emacs 2> emacs.trace
>> that will give a better idea of what is going wrong.
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> emacs.trace file: https://termbin.com/0u7a .

Begining on line , you have the following:

access("/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/SourceCode/SourceCodePro-Medium.ttf", R_OK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x88} ---
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {sa_handler=SIG_DFL, sa_mask=[SEGV], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, sa_restorer=0x7f6f866636a0}, {sa_handler=0x56274dd59dc0, sa_mask=~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER|SA_ONSTACK|SA_SIGINFO, sa_restorer=0x7f6f869d40f0}, 8) = 0

To me, that looks like the permissions on that .ttf are wrong, and emacs
is not handling the problem gracefully. So, I would start by looking at
the permissions on that file.

Leo